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but Mr. Tillett of Norwich^ has produced one 

 with male flowers. It is a well-known feature of 

 the yew that it now and again becomes monoecious, 

 i.e. having both male and female flowers on the 

 same plant. 



The upright form and the arrangement of leaves 

 — peculiarities which characterise the fastigiate 

 form — are really juvenile or seed-bed characters 

 which have become persistent. Other varieties 

 are Taxtis baccata procumbens and the Neidpath 

 yew, T. baccata erecta ; T. baccata frtictit-luteo, 

 a variety with yellow fruit, first found in 1817 in 

 an old orchard near Glasnevin, Dublin ; T. baccata 

 azcrea, a beautiful golden-leaved plant, which is 

 mentioned in Plot's History of Staffordshire, a.d. 

 1686, as a ' yellow-leav'd Yew Tree' occurring in 

 that county ; T. baccata Dovastonii, a pendulous 

 form, which originated about a hundred years ago 

 at Westfelton, near Shrewsbury ; and T. adpressa, 

 of which variety a tree, measuring 3 feet in girth, 

 and having a diameter of shade of 2,0 feet, is found 

 in the garden of the Earl of x^nnesley at Castle- 

 wellan, Co. Down. 



Veitch gives a number of other varieties chiefly 

 of horticultural interest. 



The generic name Taxus is derived from the 

 Greek ra^o?, which, from racrcra;, 'to arrange,' has, 

 very probably, reference to the two-rowed arrange- 



' Manual of Coiiiferce. 



